Understanding When Aspirin Helps in Type 2 Diabetes

New observational data suggest selected people with type 2 diabetes could see cardiovascular benefit from primary prevention aspirin when bleeding risk is low.

A large real world analysis presented at AHA 2025 suggests that adults with type 2 diabetes at moderate to high cardiovascular risk may experience fewer heart attacks, strokes, and deaths with low dose aspirin use, challenging the idea that primary prevention aspirin is always inappropriate.

Study Details

For the past decade, guidelines have steadily move…